Title:Piracy and Place-making: An ethnography of a software copy shop in Hanoi, VietnamPresenter:Lilly Nguyen, Women and Gender Studies at UNCAbstract:
In this talk, I describe the work of a pirated software disc shop in Hanoi, Vietnam. Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2010 to 2011, this talk will show how copying served as a form of place-making. Copying allowed shop owners to make and reproduce software discs, but more importantly, copying proved to be a vital process in which people shared knowledge, repaired computers, and generated professional networks along “Computer Street.” As such, rather than assume piracy to be illicit and illegal, this talk instead reveals the ways in which copying and piracy are highly contingent on culturally informed ideas of expertise, techno-material stability, and everyday entrepreneurial cultures.Where: Manning Hall Room 208When: Friday, April 22nd 2016, 12-1PM

Ingrid Erickson:Workers on the Move

Title:Infrastructuring & the Artful Integrations of Workers on the MovePresenter:Ingrid Erickson of RutgersAbstract:
Contemporary forms of work, while continuing to be intimately connected to information and communication technologies (ICTs), are increasingly being shaped by two new sociotechnical forces–the expanding global economy and emerging cloud infrastructures. Together these realities have resulted in the need for a new type of worker that is technically skilled and amenable to project work, while likewise able to accomplish his or her tasks across multiple environments or while on the move. These individuals can be likened to professional satellites—actors who define their work not by their presence in a traditional work-related location but by their agile ability to orbit around clients, co-workers, and infrastructures integrating inputs and output as they circumnavigate. This talk draws on a recent study to explore how workers must actively configure infrastructures to address both technological and contextual constraints, ranging from technological and infrastructural breakdown to difficulties caused by both spatial and organizational boundaries. These ‘artful integrations’ by workers involve the construction of bridging, assembling, and circumventing solutions to maintain task continuity and, more importantly, to produce a seamless veneer of professionalism for clients and coworkers. Engaging in these practices requires that workers develop ‘infrastructural competence’ in addition to knowledge expertise–a discovery that suggests not only the need for new ways of training workers in the future, but also an update to the ways that we conceptualize knowledge work.Where: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, April 8th 2016, 12-1PM

Dima Epstein: Online Civic

Title:If you build it, will they come? Practices, technology, and the value proposition of online civic engagement.Presenter:Dima Epstein, University of IllinoisAbstract:
Between Twitter revolutions and Facebook elections, there is a growing belief that information and communication technologies are changing the way democracy is practiced. The discourse around e-government and online deliberation is frequently focused on technical solutions and based in the belief that if you build it correctly effective mass participation will follow. This talk will delve into the intricacies of design and practice of effective online engagement in complex policymaking activities and deliberation; it will also touch on the value proposition of lay citizens’ contribution to such processes. The talk is based on research conducted on RegulationRoom – an experimental online c ivic engagement platform designed and operated by CeRI (Cornell eRulemaking initiative). It will draw on three recent studies dealing with mapping of challenges for effective online participation, experimenting with platform design, and evaluating potential contribution of such civic engagement.Where: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, March 25th 2016, 12-1 PM

Title:When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and RecommendationsPresenter:Susan Gauch, University of ArkansasWhere: Manning Hall Room 208When: Friday, February 19th 2016, 12:00 Noon

Title: Your Internet and My Internet are Not the Same Thing: why bridging the Digital Divide requires us to make keener distinctions about wealth and privilege
Presenter: Cliff Missen, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of WiderNet, School of Information and Library Science, UNCWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, November 20th 2015, 12:00 noon

Title: I’m not a social worker!: An information service model for working with patrons in crisisPresenter: Lynn Westbrook, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at AustinWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, April 24th 2015, 12:00 noon

Title: How do place, community and information influence behaviors in the disabled?Presenter: Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNCWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, September 19th 2014, 12 Noon

This is a document to save and share ideas for apps and projects for Google Glass, and in particular for the SILS Google Glass group. Please feel free to add your ideas to this document (ideas in “Proposed by Others” and development notes in “Development” section).

Title: National Library of Australia Digital Preservation: a chronology of ideas and projects over the last 6 yearsPresenter: David Pearson , Manager of the Digital Preservation section at the National Library of AustraliaWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, January 11th 2013, 12 Noon

Title: Design and Evaluation of a System to Support Collaborative SearchPresenter: Robert Capra, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNCWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, October 26th 2012, 12 Noon

Title: Social Roles as Context in Information BehaviorPresenter: Donald Case, Professor in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information StudiesWhere: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson LibraryWhen: Friday, February 28th 2012, 11 AM

Title: Data Triage and Data Analytics for Personal Digital CollectionsPresenter: Kam Woods, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWhere: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson LibraryWhen: Friday, January 27th 2012, 12 Noon

Title: Using Off-Line Libraries to Fill a Critical Information Gap in Underserved AreasPresenter: Cliff Missen, director of the WiderNet Project and an instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of IowaWhere: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson LibraryWhen: Monday, January 23rd 2012, 11 AM

Title: Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack ObamaPresenter: Daniel Kreiss, Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, November 18th 2011, 12 Noon

Title:Information and Environmental Finance: The Role Information Plays in the Work of the Environmental Finance CenterPresenter: Jeff Hughes, Director of the Environmental Finance Center at UNCWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, March 25 2011, 12 Noon

Title: Becoming a Public Steward: Technology and Its Role in the Public SectorPresenter: Shannon Tufts, Lecturer and Director, Center for Public TechnologyWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, April 16th 2010, 12 Noon

Title: Everywhere to go but where is home? Building “places of our own” for personal informationPresenter: William Jones, Research Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of WashingtonWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, April 9th 2010, 12 Noon

Diane Kelly: Effects of Popularity and Quality on the Usage of Query Suggestions

David Nichols :Experiences in Deploying Public Metadata Analysis Tools

Title: Experiences in Deploying Public Metadata Analysis ToolsPresenter: David Nichols, professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New ZealandWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, March 6th, 2009, 12 Noon

Title: Organizing the World’s Information: Google’s Vision for the 21st Century
Presenters: Craig Silverstein, Google’s Technical Director and First EmployeeSponser: The Health Sciences Library and School of Information and Library ScienceWhere: Medical Biomolecular Research Building at UNC-CHWhen: Thursday, October 26th, 2006, 4-5:30 PMPresentation Not available

Robert Cook-Deegan : Does Open Science Matter? A Case Study of Genomics

Title: Does Open Science Matter? A Case Study of GenomicsPresenter: Robert Cook-Deegan, Director of the Duke Center for Genome Ethics, Law & PolicyWhere: UNC Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB), Ground Floor Auditorium, G202
(The MBRB is a relatively new building, on Columbia St south of Thurston-Bowles, and north of the Ambulatory Care Center).When: Friday, April 21st 2006, 12 NoonPresentation: Not available

Title: Wikis and Blogs–How they can improve conferences and related activitiesPresenter: Brad Hemminger and Jackson FoxWhere: Manning 208When: Friday, Oct 14th 2005, 12 NoonPresentation:Not availableAbstract:For the first time, the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) conference will host both a blog and a wiki for their annual conference. Brad Hemminger and Jackson Fox developed and will host the ASIST 2005 wiki. We’ll talk about our vision for how we think wikis and blogs can help encourage communication between conference participants before, during and after the conference. We’ll walk you through the ASIST wiki, blog, and some of the behind the scene decisions in choosing the wiki, and designing it for ASIST. We’ll leave time for lots of questions, and for others to share their experience with wikis and blogs as well. Please bring your laptop and engage in interacting with and updating the wiki (before, during and after the talk)!

Below are links to the main ASIST wiki page, and the discussion page on the wiki specifically for this talk. Use the discussion page to pose questions and comments before or during the talk.

Title:Preview and Brainstorming for JCDL 2006Presenter:Gary MarchioniniWhere:Manning 208When:Friday, Sept 9th 2005, 12 NoonPresentation: Not availableAbstract:
SILS is hosting the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006). Gary Marchionini is the conference chair. Come hear an update of what’s planned for the conference and learn the behind the scenes secrets. We are especially interested in getting feedback from you about events and activities that UNC may want to do in conjunction with JCDL: for instance workshops, tours, etc. Please come join us. It’s not to late to volunteer to help with the conference!

Title:Subject indexing via annotation in the GENIE projectPresenter:Nancy GreenWhere:Manning Hall room 208When:Friday, March 4th 2005, 12 NoonPresentation:Not availableAbstract:Nancy Green: As for the talk, my goal is to give an overview of an annotation scheme for clinical genetics documents that I developed for the GenIE project. I was thinking that it may be of interest to the Digital Libraries group since it is a kind of subject indexing though not in the traditional sense. So, I planned to give an overview of the goals of the GenIE project, and describe how this kind of Bayesian network-based annotation scheme compares to a thesaurus or semantic network based approach. (attached is a copy of the journal paper on which the talk will be based.)

Special Note: Nancy is interested in talking with people at UNC. She will be here for a visit Friday afterNoon (4th). There will be a general open discussion immediately following her talk, as well as potential time slots for individual or small group discussions with her. If you’re interested please email me (bmh@ils.unc.edu) to make arrangements.

Luke Huan : Identification of Recurring Residue Packing Pattern from a Group of Protein Structures

Title:Identification of Recurring Residue Packing Pattern from a Group of Protein StructuresPresenter:Luke HuanWhere:Manning 208.When: Friday, February 11th 2005, 12 NoonPresentation:Not available

Title:Public Library of SciencePresenter:Hemai ParthasarathyWhere:Manning 214When:Thursday, Oct 7th 2004, 11:00amPresentation:Not availableAbstract:PLoS is a publisher whose mission is to make scientific and medical literature a public resource, freely available to all. PLoS currently publishes two journals, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. Effective September 1, 2004, UNC-CH and the three other Triangle Research Libraries Network consortium universities are members of the Public Library of Science (www.PLOS.org). The membership provides scientists affiliated with UNC-CH a 50% reduction in fees for publishing in PLoS journals.

Title:VITALPresenter:Scott WeimerWhere:Davis 214When:Friday, Sept 24th 2004, 10:00amPresentation:Not available
According to the VTLS websiteAbstract:“VITAL builds on the Fedora repository architecture by providing VTLS
developed work flow extensions, management utilities and enhanced
searching capabilities. Using Fedora defined web services, VITAL
provides a mechanism for your organization to create tools, enhance the
functionality provided by VTLS, or leverage the open source community
for future applications. Together, the package is known as VITAL.”

Scholarly Communication Working Group : Google is Good?

Title:Google is Good?Presenter:Scholarly Communication Working GroupWhere:Davis 214When:Tuesday, Sept 14th 2004, 12 NoonPresentation:Not availableAbstract:
Just how good is this popular search engine and what are the strengths and weaknesses? How is Google affecting student writing at UNC-CH? We will also discuss the impact of Google on reference services in academic libraries.

Brad Hemminger : Virtual Museums?

Title:Virtual MuseumsPresenter:Brad HemmingerWhere:Manning 208When:Friday, Sept 3rd 2004, 12:30pmPresentation:Not availableAbstract:
Come see and experience how most museum patrons may visit museums virtually in the future. Dr. Hemminger will present the basics of how entire museum exhibits (as well as individual pieces) can be digitized and then visualized in virtual reality. He’ll also discuss how users will interact with online virtual museums. There will be plenty of time at the end for folks to test drive the world’s first completely digitized museum exhibit (Ackland’s 2003 exhibit
“Plum, Pine, Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art”). This project is in conjunction with the Ackland Museum and 3rdTech. http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/virseum

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2003 Presentations

Jackson Fox&Marisa Ramirez : Semester Research?

Title:Semester ResearchPresenter: CRADLE fellows Jackson Fox and Marisa RamirezWhere: Manning 208When: Friday, December 03rd 2003, 12:00pmAbstract:
CRADLE fellows Jackson Fox and Marisa Ramirez discussed their semester accomplishments. Marisa discussed her involvement with the development of the CRADLE website and the Minds of Carolina pilot project. Jackson discussed his work with Electronic Theses and Dissertations and the advantages of using MIT’s DSpace digital repository to store digital information.

Fred Kilgore&Herbert Van de Sompel : Henderson Lecture

Title:Henderson LecturePresenter: Dr. Fred Kilgore and Dr. Herbert Van de SompelWhere: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson LibraryWhen: Friday, November 21st, 2003, 09:30amAbstract:
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990 to honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member (1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known as the School of Library Science.

Dr. Fred Kilgour, a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Information and Library Science and founder of OCLC, and Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory discussed the evolution of shared information resources.

Gary Marchionini&Jeffery Pomerantz : Evaluation of Digital Libraries at University of North Carolina

Title:Evaluation of Digital Libraries at University of North CarolinaPresenter:Dr. Gary Marchionini & Dr. Jeffery Pomerantz, School of Information and Library Science, University of North CarolinaWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, October 31st, 2003, 12:00pmAbstract:
Dr. Gary Marchionini and Dr. Jeffery Pomerantz discussed their work in evaluating digital libraries at both the local and national levels. Dr. Marchionini focused on several evaluative elements that are useful when analyzing a digital library. He advocated a multi-faceted approach for such an analysis, which includes examining the system, the user actions and the human-computer interface interactions. Dr. Pomerantz spoke about the evaluative process with the State Library of North Carolina’s new chat-based virtual reference pilot project, NC Knows. His evaluation seeks to answer the evaluation question: “Is collaborative virtual reference an effective way to meet the information needs of North Carolinians?”

Steve Morris : The Digital Library Initiative at North Carolina State University

Title:The Digital Library Initiative at North Carolina State UniversityPresenter:Steve Morris, NC State Digital Library Initiatives HeadWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, October 10th, 2003, 12:00pmAbstract:
Steve Norris discussed the North Carolina State University Digital library initiatives that are underway. Among the points that he touched on, he discussed changes and improvements in library web content and redesign, use of instructional objects and online tutorials, developments in automated reference, methods of maintaining persistent internal and external web links, management and preservation of digital objects, use of collaborative tools and methods of information delivery and advantages of pooling and decentralizing library resources.

Presentation SlidesAbstract:
Tim Shearer discussed the UNC library efforts to provide an infrastructure to cut across the current library website database, beginning with subject access to resources. He has been working to develop “tab design” and “subject drilldown”, which is due to release Fall 2003. It will allow users to go in by a subject, like “Psychology,” and get to resources collocated by the thesaurus term. Tim summarized the background behind the UNC library database, discussed what lead up to the development of this new infrastructure, and demonstrated the beta version of the new interface that is currently being developed.

Brad Hemminger : Scholarly Communication

Title: Scholarly Communication: The Changing Face of Peer ReviewPresenter:Prof. Brad Hemminger, UNC SILSWhere: Manning Hall, Room 208When: Friday, September 5th, 2003, 12:15pmAbstract:
Brad Hemminger discussed the changes wrought upon scholarly communication, and in particular the peer review process by the change to an electronic medium. The “pipeline” of the peer review process was discussed including alternative automated and human indexing & cataloging, alternative peer review mechanisms. These mechanisms include the human expert peer review, certified reviewers, open review, moderators, no review, and automated mechanisms such as citation count, usage, amount of discussion. Discussion touched on modern digital open archive systems that support multiple mechanisms. The floor discussion debated the pros and cons of the different methods.